The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger was an

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established in Sandpoint, Idaho, by wealthy retired entrepreneurs

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and

Carl E. Story The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger was an United States, American antisemitic Christian identity new religious movement, religious movement established in Sandpoint, Idaho, by wealthy retired entrepreneurs Vincent Bertollini and Carl E. Story. The sec ...

. The sect was located in proximity to the

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compound and cooperated with a number of Aryan Nations members. Bertollini and Story had ultimately selected the city of Sandpoint on account that roughly 98% of the area's residents were non-Jewish Caucasian Americans. Members of the group believed that non-Jewish

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are the Israelites (the chosen people) described in the Bible, while people who are ethnically Jewish are descendants of Eve and

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. Furthermore, the sect's adherents proclaimed that non-whites were "soulless". They went on to print large, elaborate, expensive posters depicting their own "tree of heredity" for major

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s and mailed it to a number of persons living in the area.

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{{Authority control Christian Identity Antisemitism in Idaho White supremacist groups in the United States